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This ambitious, entertaining documentary about the contents of our skies was airily filmed yet densely informative

Operation Cloud Lab BBC Two****

Silicon Valley Sky Atlantic****

Whereas Cloudbase (launched 2067) prospered under the military discipline of Colonel White and was crewed by captains Blue to Scarlet with attendant angels, Operation Cloud Lab was led by a larky meteorologist, Felicity Aston. She may not have been tasked, as was her equivalent on Captain Scarlet, with saving the world, but her team, assembled for this airily filmed yet densely informative two-part documentary, was almost equally ambitious in its determination to do something about the weather.